OpenAI Pauses RL Training and Anthropic Adds Watermarks to AI-Generated Text

This week, we cover updates from the ongoing cyber saga, including OpenAI's two-week pause on RL training and the cyber capabilities of Z.ai's latest model GLM-5.3. We also unpack Anthropic's move to add watermarks to text generated by Claude in compliance with the EU AI Act.

Timestamps:

Mark Zuckerberg's essay on AI (00:20)

OpenAI pauses RL training (5:56)

Cyber capabilities of GLM-5.3 (15:29)

EU AI Act refresher (24:29)

How Anthropic's text watermark works (31:21)

What's driving the backlash against Anthropic (40:59)

 

Additional Reading:

Zuckerberg's essay "The Future is for Everyone": https://www.meta.com/thefutureisforeveryone/ 

OpenAI announces two-week pause on RL training: https://openai.com/index/pacing-model-development-cyber-capabilities/